BleepingComputer.com: Ms Word No Longer In All Programs List

Hi Gang,

Ok, I don't believe I did this, but I did.

I have office 2003 installed on my computer. I wanted a shortcut to Word on my desktop, so I went to Start > All Programs > Office and then dragged the Word icon to the desktop. It created a shortcut ok, but it also removed the listing from the list of programs that are installed on the computer under All Programs!

I think what I should have done is to right click on the Word icon, and choose Create a Shortcut. Then drag the shortcut onto the desktop.

BUT WAIT, there's more!

I didn't worry too much about the missing listing as I was going to install Office 2007 anyway. So, guess what.... after installing 2007 I wanted a shortcut to Word on the desktop, so I dragged... well I think you can fill in the rest... yes, that's right, I did it again! So now there is no listing for Word under Office 2007 in All Programs list either.

How can I reverse this so that I can have both the listing and the shortcut?

Thanks!

Hello Albert,

Right-click the desired shortcut icon on your desktop, then select 'Copy'.
Click 'Start', 'All Programs' and move the mouse pointer to the top-level menu item where you want the copy to be placed (e.g., "Microsoft Office"). Right-click that menu item (i.e., "Microsoft Office") and select 'Explore'.
In the right-hand pane of the Explorer menu, where it lists all the items in that menu, right-click in an empty space there and select 'Paste Shortcut'.

P.S. I just tested this by copying a shortcut to the Command Prompt on my desktop and pasting it into the 'Google Earth' menu item in 'All Programs' -- it worked fine.

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Don't feel bad. Been there, done that. Only with me it was opening a notepad from a floppy disk. From then on everytime I clicked a .txt document my A drive would clatter. Drove me crazy until one day I figured out to find the file association to A in my registry. I've done that 3-4 times now. I keep forgetting to copy whatever the darned file I might want to look at to my desktop before opening it.

Thank you very much! I appreciate it.